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animentality · 8 months

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#twitter #lgbt #homophobia #lgbtqia #queer is not a slur

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undead-dreams-of-overmorrow · 11 months

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Happy pride month to the queers that can't come out to their friends and families. To the queers whose governments would torture or kill them for coming out. To queers who have lost all or most of their friends when they came out.

To queers that are not visibly queer. To queers who are visibly queer and are mocked for it.

To trans and nonbinary people who dont want to or maybe cant transition. Or who "dont pass". To ace and aro and aroace and bisexual people who are often assumed by others to be straight. To queers who are forced to "prove their queerness".

It is hard. But thats ok. Youre not alone. Queer is community. And one way or another we'll go through everything

Happy pride ʕっ• ᴥ • ʔっ

#not sure how to even tag this #happy pride 🌈#queer #transgender #nonbinary #asexual #aromantic #bisexual #gay #lesbian #is this tag spam? hope not #green bear spam #queer is not a slur

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thready-to-go · 7 months

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I am the big scary homosexual the right warned you about

#embroidery #embroidelicious #hand embroidery #handcrafted #handmade #gay #lesbian #lgbtq community #lgbtqia #lgbt positivity #lgbtq #queer positivity #queer is not a slur #handmade pins

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crazycatsiren · 9 months

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Tagging my posts that contain the word "queer" with #q slur gets you automatically blocked. No fucks given.

#queer #lgbtq+#queer is not a slur #queer and proud #pride #we're here we're queer

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a-faggot-with-opinions · 10 months

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if you think that queer is a slur get the fuck off of my blog

#star speaks #just saw someone reblog a post of mine about slur discourse with this take #imagine reblogging a post. from a slur url. then trying to say queer is a slur in the tags.#queer #queer politics #discourse #queer is not a slur

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thedawnofcrime · 11 months

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As a queer teen, I need the “queer is a slur” folks to consider the fact that we don’t care. So many queer kids are growing up nowadays surrounded by words of queer positivity.

After constantly hearing “queer pride” and “support queer youth”, and “queer kids matter”, y’all are really gonna tell us that’s a no-no word that’s offensive to all queers? It’s literally the figurehead of our community, and saves millions the fate of calling themselves LGBTQIA+ whenever they want to introduce themselves. If you don’t want to use it, because you have a bad history with the term, that’s perfectly valid. Don’t ask the same of us though.

#queer #queer pride #queer is not a slur #lgbtq #lgbt+#lgbtqia #lgbtqia+#lgbtq+

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astaraels · 9 days

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I love being queer. I love calling myself queer. I'm a weird little guy and I'm gay as goddamn hell. I contain multitudes. calling myself queer is easier than giving cishet people a crash course in explaining all of my labels and it also connects me to my queer forebearers. you can't just call historical figures gay or bi or lesbian or trans because those words are too new (historically speaking) but you can say they had queer relationships or a queer gender identity. there is nothing wrong with the word queer. the LGBTQIA acronym is still there but it's ever evolving and you never know what it's gonna be this time next year. queer, though, queer is forever. queer is always there for you. embrace your queerness and walk with pride.

#queer blogging #queer is not a slur #it's easier to call myself queer than say “biromantic asexual demigirl” and expect most people to know wtf that means

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transmascpetewentz · 8 months

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Here's the thing about tagging slurs. It's an inherent political statement, whether you want it to be or not. When you tag "q slur," you aren't just helping people filter it out. You are making a political statement about the original post, and derailing the point being made. When I see you tag my post with "q slur," it's saying that the preferred umbrella term mainly for those who don't want to explain the nuances of their identity to everyone they meet, is something that should be censored in some cases.

I only tag for one slur (though I am very inconsistent with my tagging of it), and that is the CB slur (c**tb*y). The reason I tag for this specific slur is because I am drawing attention to its history in the fetishization and dehumanization of people like me, and the attention being drawn to this history is important when we are discussing its use as a slur. When you tag "q slur" on unrelated posts, you are derailing the original post by talking about queer's past usage as a derogatory term. You need not do that when someone is talking about their identification with the term and not talking about the specific oppression they face.

You can tag a post with "queer" or "q" or anything similar. I'm sure your followers know how to filter out specific words in posts, too, so they can just choose to filter out any posts that include the word queer in them. But when you tag a queer person identifying as queer as "q slur," you are making a political statement about what you think of this person's identity. That is why I, and many others, do not want you to tag our posts with "q slur."

#wentz.txt #queer discourse #queer is not a slur

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animentality · 2 months

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idk how the "queer is a slur" people think they'll win the war.

one of the first things gays learn to do is embrace the disgusting things people call us, because it's easier than trying to force everyone to stop calling us those things. And when you've existed on the margins and struggled with feeling like an outsider since you were a child, maybe you even crave the unconventional and the outlandish and yes.

even the offensive.

now there are still things that LGBT people should not say, because they don't own all terms, like I need white LGBT people to not use racial slurs that do not belong to them, and also being gay is not equivalent to being say, a black woman. your experiences have a similar enemy, but they're not built exactly the same and it is wrong to act as though they are.

but uh.

yeah. faggot is a hateful word. it's also funny whenever I see gays on Tumblr say real faggot hours when they post a picture of their blorbo.

#lgbt #lgbtqia #queer #queer community #queer is not a slur

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mspec-defender · 11 months

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Just so we’re clear. If any one of y’all reblog one of my posts with #q slur or any other similar hashtag. I will block you on sight. It is ok to say queer, I think more people should. It isn’t a dirty word it is one of empowerment and resistance and the fact that you are so scared by that word says more about you than the ones who call themselves queer.

#queer #queer is not a slur #queer pride #lgbt #pride

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fixing-bad-posts · 2 years

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[Image description: A tumblr text post, edited blackout-poetry style to read, "My fave is the repeated usage of the word 'queer'. In a discussion about LGBT people, it's always a great idea."]

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My fave is the repeated usage of the word "queer". In a discussion about LGBT people, it's always a great idea

#fixing-bad-posts #fixingbadposts #blackout poetry #queer #queer is not a slur #queer positivity #queer community

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thready-to-go · 2 months

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trans & queer people make the springtime come faster 🌱

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queeranarchism · 1 year

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To the TERF in my notes: You’re not supposed to openly admit that ‘queer is a slur’ is about hating trans people. It’s a dog whistle.

#queer is not a slur

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pigeons-and-pebbles · 7 months

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(i wrote this before the protests here in canada started, but i feel like with what's been happening now is as good of a time as ever to post it.)

i am queer

i am queer and pissed and terrified and my queer friends and i gather and will continue to fight in the ways we can

we are kids, yes. and we don't have the numbers for a full on protest. we know this.

but we do what we can.

this past june we wore pride flag capes all month long, myself included, and we were queer and we were in people's faces and we were scared and we were harassed. but we were.

and we are.

we are still here and we are still fighting.

we sold T-shirts with rainbows on them to teachers who were interested, and now when a new student sees that, they will know they're safe with that teacher.

we gather together to report bullying so no one has to be alone when they're recounting what was done to them.

we put handprints in paint on our gay teacher's classroom wall so it'll be harder for them to take it from us.

we have GSA meetings weekly so we know we only have to make it another few days before we can feel truly safe again. we have a group chat for when a few days is much too long.

we tell each other "if one of those people bother you, tell me. i've been waiting for a good excuse for years." we will make good on those promises if and when the time comes.

we share our stories, we teach and learn, we respect each other and our views.

we laugh together and we cry together and we scream together and we listen together. we hug each other and we make fun of each other's shitty parents and we love each other and with each breath we promise each other that none of us ever have to be alone.

we are kids and we are scared and we are hurting and we are angry and we are sad and alongside all that we are queer.

and that ties us together in a way they can never break.

#lgbtq+#queer #gsa #found family #platonic love #queer is not a slur #ask to tag

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elizmanderson · 10 months

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queerness in The Remarkable Retirement of Edna Fisher

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when you’re an old woman armed with nothing but gumption and knitting needles, stopping a sorcerer from wiping out an entire dragon-fighting organization is a tall order. no one understands why 83-year-old Edna Fisher is the Chosen One, destined to save the Knights from a dragon-riding sorcerer bent on their destruction. after all, Edna has never handled a magical weapon, faced down a dragon, or cast a spell. and everyone knows the Council of Wizards always chooses a teenager—like the vengeful girl ready to snatch Edna’s destiny from under her nose.

still, Edna leaps at the chance to leave the nursing home. with a son long dead in the Knights’ service, she’s determined to save dragon-fighters like him & ensure other mothers don’t suffer the same loss she did. but as Edna learns about the abuse in the ranks & the sorcerer’s history, she questions if it’s really the sorcerer that needs stopping—or the Knights she’s trying to save.

find it here

okay let's talk about queerness in this book

did a thread on twitter in which I said "cishet" five hundred thousand times so will probably get banned lmao but anyway I wanted to share it here too

especially since it's late in Pride Month and I have yet to post anything anywhere about it BEING Pride Month and me being queer and my books being queer, bc I've been burnt out af. so what energy I've had has gone toward planning and writing

anyway

I say "queerness in" rather than "queer characters in" because I want to talk about queerness in the book more broadly, not least bc I'm a queer creator & this is a queer book, but I've had a lot of impostor syndrome about both those things.

I figured out I was queer later in life & am a woman-presenting person w/a male-presenting partner. I've questioned my gender & sexuality repeatedly & ID'd differently over time, which is why I like "queer." I don't have to re-explain myself a dozen times. I'm queer. that's that.

but having figured out my queerness later, and having a relationship that presents as cishet, it took a long time for me to overcome feelings of ~not being queer enough~ (and sometimes I still struggle with them).

similarly, my MC is an apparently* cishet woman, unlike the MCs of many books that appear on queer book lists at this time of year. just like I took a long time to start really engaging with my community bc I worried I wasn't ~queer enough,~ for a long time, I didn't call this a queer book bc I worried it wasn't ~queer enough~. if people asked if the book was queer, I'd reply with a laundry list of explicitly queer characters rather than saying yes

fuck that though lmao. this is a queer book. let me count the ways

1. found family

as found family is so important to many queer people - by connecting us to our community, by welcoming us when bio family casts us off - found family is central to REMARKABLE RETIREMENT. while there are queer romantic arcs, the found family is the most important relationship in the book.

2. queer labels

some characters get explicit labels. Benjamin is gay. Clem is ace. queer labels are important bc they give us the ability to describe our identities and experiences! however...

3. undefined queerness

while labels are important, queerness isn't about fitting into new boxes. it's about smashing the boxes apart.

even if characters don't have specific labels applied on-page, they're queer. they don't need to claim a specific label for that to be true.*

*caveat that some media avoids using labels to pander to queer audiences w/implied queerness without ~alienating~ cishets by stating "this character is Not Cishet"**

that's not what I mean

I mean e.g. in OFMD queerness is inherent even if WORDS like queer/ace/etc aren't used. OMitB is another example (specifically Mabel) and Good Omens is yet another.

**caveat to my caveat that some media is queer-coded & avoids queer labels rather than being explicitly queer because network execs or whoever won't allow explicit queerness.

this is not the fault of the creators. sometimes it can be hard to tell the difference.

but anyway.

in REMARKABLE RETIREMENT, several queer characters are queer without using specific labels.

in some cases this is bc it doesn't come up or isn't important to them to express in the moment. like Clem is bi, but she's not worried about being bi. she's worried about being ace, because she's still kind of questioning that about herself, and she's worried it might cause problems down the road if her crush is >:[ about her not wanting to have sex. so she uses the word "ace" to describe herself in this scene but not "bi," even though she's both.

in other cases it's bc they don't have the language. Kiernan's sense of attraction and desire is described in a way that seems graysexual or demisexual (or both), and Red's sense of desire is described in a way that seems ace-spec, but neither of them use those terms, because neither of them know those terms. despite the lack of terminology, many ace readers have identified multiple ace characters based on description or experience. the lack of a specific label doesn't make those characters less queer.

similarly, some characters have not yet had this realization about themselves. which leads us to...

4. questioning

okay, back to my first asterisk of the post.

Edna is by all appearances an old cishet woman.

for most of the story, that's how she seems. that's what SHE thinks, even. she's a cishet old grandma adopting every queer young person she can find.

BUT THEN

Clem explains aceness to her

and Edna has a brief crisis bc wait a minute this sounds like her??

ultimately, Edna has too much to worry about right now to spend time questioning whether, at the age of 83, she might be somewhere on the ace spectrum

so it doesn't come up again

but that moment of crisis is THERE, & that too is queer

5. queernormativity*

I write queernorm worlds, largely bc I viscerally hate coming out lmao

it doesn't mean everyone's a queer scholar

like Clem has to explain "ace" to Edna, bc Edna thinks blankly of a deck of cards & doesn't understand what that has to do with sex

but it DOES mean queer folks get to just be and do

*caveat that this is not remotely to imply that a story is less queer if its world ISN'T queernorm

it's just a way in which MY story is queer

6. all the queer characters

not gonna do a list (even though my original idea for Pride Month when I was young and optimistic and thought I'd have energy to do it way back when was a list of queer characters), but virtually every character in this book is queer in one way or another

on twitter this is where I ended because 6 seemed like a good number for Pride since June is the sixth month, but tumblr gets a bonus

7. the author is queer

happy pride, buy my queer book

#the remarkable retirement of edna fisher #e.m. anderson #e's writing #pride month #pride month books #queer book recs #book recs #fantasy books #indie author #2023 debuts #2023 books #queer is not a slur #adding that one simply bc I said 'queer' five hundred thousand times as well as cishet so just in case lol

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thedawnofcrime · 10 months

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ASSHOLE

POLL RESULTS

Note: if you don’t agree with trans people, don’t reblog. Instead go take a cold shower and maybe stub your toe on a metal table.

Earlier today I polled the LGBTQ and LGB hashtags to see if the general population of queer people accepted those who want to separate queer and trans people from the rest of the community. This wasn’t actually my goal, because I know perfectly well how you bitches operate.

I really didn’t care about the results from LGBTQ hashtags, because I know from legitimate demographic studies that most people, let alone queer people, do not agree with their sentiments.

What I did learn however is that their goal isn’t to separate the LGBTQ community down the middle, it’s to build their own hateful group and convince everybody else that they’re bigger and stronger. Their biggest tactic seems to be the abuse of language, by claiming homophobia when queer people refer to themselves as queer, and insisting that being against LGB groups is against all lesbian gay and bisexual people, they hope to victimize themselves when faced with even equality with trans people.

They spread my poll like the plague, reaching over 250 votes in a couple hours (thanks for that), and I couldn’t give less of a shit, because those votes came entirely from the group who already hates trans people. They REALLY want community, but without the icky trans people. They think our pride is tainted by grooming and fetishists, because they can’t look at a history book and realize homophobes have been saying that about them since the 1900s. Either way, don’t give them that community. Protest their groups and don’t show up to their pride, because there’s no pride in hate. Love thy neighbour unless they want to control your life, your gender and your language.

When you look at the poll demographics though, most votes came from under 0.5% of the queer community on Tumblr. Despite all they might say, the answer to whether trans people deserve to be in the community is a resounding

•YES•

The LGB hashtag has so few members that the numbers don’t even show up. Add the T and you go up OVER TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND.

You’re loud as fuck, but less like a crowd, and more like an angsty teen in their garage with an electric guitar and 3 speakers.

TRANS PEOPLE ARE HERE, AND IF YOU DON’T LIKE IT, YOU CAN

✨ROT IN HELL✨

#transgender #lgbtq #trans #queer #lgbt #queer is not a slur #lgb with the t #trans rights #trans rights are human rights #lgbtqia #lgbtq+#lgbtqia+#queer community #hate is unworthy of love #rot in piss

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